Discussion
"Most people said they hadn鈥檛 really thought about where their stuff went after they sent it back"
I've been writing a little bit about "reverse logistics" & watched a pallet unboxing video last year for research...
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/mystery-amazon-pallet-unboxing/
archive link: https://archive.ph/NO3Xo
2/ ofc since I don't work for Wirecutter, my conclusion is a good deal more dismal than "please buy as much as you want, just be a tiny bit more selective"
most of this stuff is headed quickly to a landfill from the moment it's created. we should all buy less, buy more secondhand, repair what we can
3/ & if we live near shipping corridors, pressure officials not to chase growth over the rights and health of folks who live near the corridors
(note I said our stuff is bound to be waste from the moment it's created, not moment it's purchased. see, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/14/los-angeles-cargo-theft-union-pacific )
4/ "the container is in some sense both an epoch-making design object, & an imaginative opening. It begs us to look beyond or within the banality of the box, & outward into the myriad ways that circulatory systems become wounds on our lives & architectural landscapes"
https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/06-object-politics/container-stacking-packing-moving-world-charmaine-chua
@inquiline I've seen claims before about how large a proportion of purchases from Amazon are returned, and how much of it is sheer waste.
It's like how we have several unoccupied housing units for every unhoused person. I tell people that and they will just insist it's impossible.
It would literally be more efficient to give people whatever they want for free, than this farcical system of creating products to send to the landfill.
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